Ensure your students have access to the authoritative and in-depth content of this popular and trusted A Level History series. For over twenty years Access to History has been providing students with reliable, engaging and accessible content on a wide range of topics. Each title in the series provides comprehensive coverage of different history topics on current AS and A2 level history specifications, alongside exam-style practice questions and tips to help students achieve their best. The series: - Ensures students gain a good understanding of the AS and A2 level history topics through an engaging, in-depth and up-to-date narrative, presented in an accessible way. - Aids revision of the key A level history topics and themes through frequent summary diagrams - Gives support with assessment, both through the books providing exam-style questions and tips for AQA, Edexcel and OCR A level history specifications and through FREE model answers with supporting commentary at Access to History online (www.accesstohistory.co.uk) Government and Reform - Britain 1815-1918 This book provides an engaging account of the development of democracy in Britain, from the 'unreformed' political system around 1815 to the parliamentary Reform Acts passed between 1832 and 1918.
The author examines the impact that this period of constitutional change had upon the political life of the country, including the extension of the franchise, the limiting of the power of the House of Lords, the introduction of the secret ballot and the elimination of corrupt practices.